Ohio: Lead for Democrats in new CNN-ORC poll
The results of a new poll, sponsored CNN-ORC in Ohio, were published on April 9. In the survey participants were asked, whether they would vote for democrat Hillary Clinton or republican Donald Trump, assuming that these two candidates would win the primaries. Of those who answered the question, 50.0% revealed that they would vote for the Democrats, whereas 43.0% revealed that they would give their vote to the Republicans. This poll was conducted from March 2 to March 6, among a random sample of 884 registered voters. The error margin is +/-3.5 points.
Translating these results into two-party vote shares yields figures of 53.8% for the democrat Hillary Clinton and 46.2% for Donald Trump. The vote share for the democrats is 1.5 percentage points under the average results of other polls in Ohio.